Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [windows-home-server]

Microsoft operating system based on Windows Server 2003 R2. Off topic on this site.

55 questions
6
votes
2 answers

Information on Windows Home Server

I have been wrestling with whether to invest in a Windows Home Server (WHS). While the positives are pretty apparent: backups, remote access, low power consumption; I have not found a lot of information on cons. Further, I have been unable to locate…
ahsteele
  • 375
  • 1
  • 6
  • 14
6
votes
2 answers

What happens if my WHS boot disk or other hardware component failes?

I was boasting to some of my co-workers yesterday that my Windows Home Server (WHS) had my entire home network backed up and that is my recovery plan for a failed hard disk on one of the home computers. I was then asked what I'd do if the boot hard…
Guy
  • 1,798
  • 4
  • 21
  • 28
5
votes
1 answer

What is a scalable replacement for Windows Home Server backup technology?

We are up to three Windows Home Servers on site. They happily sit unassumingly in the corner of the server room each backing up a combination of 10 computers/servers. Benefits of WHS. Daily incremental image based backups of each machine. Saves…
GollyJer
  • 665
  • 3
  • 11
  • 22
4
votes
2 answers

Alternative to Windows Home Server on Server 2008 R2?

I'm planning to setup a Windows Home Server at home. However, since I'm also working as an ISV at home, I have a strong need for a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V server that hosts my virtual development/testing servers. The problem is that I'm not so keen…
Magnus
  • 474
  • 1
  • 7
  • 17
4
votes
4 answers

Using WHS for a Mac Time Machine Backup

Has anyone figured out a way to get Windows Home Server to be used as a repository for Time Machine backups from Leopard without installing any additional software on the Mac machine? The new HP Media Smart's have this as an added value feature and…
Martin Woodward
  • 479
  • 4
  • 8
4
votes
2 answers

Schedule service to only run at certain times

I need a way to schedule a service so it can only start between certain hours on a Windows machine (Windows Home Server which is roughly W2k3.) All help gratefully received!
David Hayes
  • 442
  • 4
  • 12
3
votes
2 answers

Windows Home Server + Hyper-V = lockup

I'm running Windows Home Server as a Hyper-V guest. Yes, I know, its quite the odd setup... What I'm seeing is that every week or 2, the WHS guest locks up, and when I try to reboot it from the Hyper-V console, nothing happens. I can't reset it,…
Scott Ivey
  • 617
  • 1
  • 8
  • 21
3
votes
7 answers

For very beginning startup: home server or EC2?

The micro instance of Amazon EC2 only has ram of 613MB, my laptop got 8GB. And I suppose likewise the processing power of my computer would be better than the micro instance. My question is, what are the considerations in deciding to host yourself…
StCee
  • 231
  • 3
  • 14
3
votes
2 answers

What happens if the Windows Home Server system drive fails?

These are my assumptions but I'd like you to correct me if I'm wrong... If the system drive fails, I lose all my computer backups. This is not a problem because there's still the real computers, so I just need to change the system drive and…
JAG
  • 839
  • 2
  • 8
  • 15
2
votes
4 answers

Are backups on WHS duplicated across multiple drives?

If you configure your multi-disk Windows Home Server (WHS) as maximum storage capacity will it duplicate your network's backups across multiple disks? Say I have 4 disks on my WHS and one of the WHS disks goes bad. Is there any chance that I will…
Guy
  • 1,798
  • 4
  • 21
  • 28
2
votes
3 answers

Network driver for Hyper-V restore from Windows Home Server

I have backed up Windows Server 2008 running virtualized on Hyper-V to a Windows Home Server 2008 SP1 (I know I should have backed up the VHD instead). Now I need to restore the contents of the VM from WHS. I have created a restore CD ISO and used…
Philipp Schmid
  • 359
  • 2
  • 6
  • 18
2
votes
3 answers

Can Windows Home Server be used on an active directory domain?

The situation: an Active Directory network with a few dozen machines. Most of the machines have the same vanilla image applied to them so if there was a hard drive failure getting the machine back up to the standard network image would be quick and…
Mike C.
  • 447
  • 1
  • 6
  • 6
2
votes
3 answers

Windows Home Server - The following files have a conflict

I have copied thousands of files of all types into the shared folders on Windows Home Server and marked all of them as "duplicate" (verb) and it appears to be doing well. However, I have a small number (about 20) .TIF files and it is complaining…
Guy
  • 1,798
  • 4
  • 21
  • 28
1
vote
3 answers

How do you converting a double partitioned hard disk to a single partion?

I have an XP Home laptop that has 2 NTFS partitions on it that I want to convert to a single NTFS partition. I haven't done this for a while but from what I recall this is as simple as running something like FDISK and deleting the 2 partitions and…
Guy
  • 1,798
  • 4
  • 21
  • 28
1
vote
4 answers

Automatic folder syncing on Windows Home Server

Is there a way for Windows Home Server to keep one of its share folders sync'd with a folder on one of the computers on the network?
Guy
  • 1,798
  • 4
  • 21
  • 28
1
2 3 4